economy is on the mend. joining us right no with his solution is john allison, the former bb & t chairman and ceo and the author of a new book it's called "the financial crisis and the free market cure: why capitalism is the world economy's only hope." john, thank you for joining us this morning. >> good morning. >> you wrote this book because you wanted to push back at the idea that grieve on wall street and deregulation of the banks is what caused the crisis. >> the left has done a great job of creating myth. the myth that roosevelt ended the depression, when, in fact, his policies were eliminated. they did a nice job of creating a very destructive myth that the banking industry was deregulated and then greed was what caused the financial crisis. first, it wasn't deregulated, there was always greed on wall street. there was no epidemic, it was government policy that caused the financial crisis. primary mistakes made by the federal reserve and in trying to eliminate a minor correction in the 2000s, and ende